Improved bale-tie



NITED STATES ATENT OFFICE.

WILLIAM A. JORDAN, OF NEW ORLEANS, LOUISIANA.

IMPROVE!) BAILE-TIE.

Specicatonjbwm'fng part of Letters Patent No. 107,058, dated Septembw` 6, 1870.

To all whom t 'may concern:

Be it known that I, WILLIAM A. JORDAN, of the city of New Orleans, State ofLouisiana, have invented a certain Improvement in Cotton-Bale Ties, of which the following is a speeitieation I.

My invention relates exclusively to that class of cotton-bale ties in which there is a slit or narrow opening for the introduction of lastend of the b nd that'is fastened thereto, after the same has been folded into hook form 5 and it consists, simply, ot' a provision to prevent a disconnection ot' the band from the/device by the slaekening of the former from a sudden shock or concussion to the bale of cotton or any other cause whatsoever, in connection with a peculiarly-formed central opening or slot.

But my invention will be better and more quickly described by referring tothe drawings, on which Figure I presents a view of the same,

as when the two ends of a band are fastened thereto; Fig. 2, a view as when one end of a` hand is fastened and the other is about to be; and Fig. 3, a detached view of the device, or as when neither end of a band is connected therewith. l

0n the drawings, A marks the plate, or rather the device as a whole; and B, the central opening, through the medium of which the band is fastened thereto, as shown at Figs. l and 2.

The trst end that is fastened to the device, which we may suppose to be C, may or may not be passed through the slit D; but the last end, E, is introduced into the central opening, B, through said slit, as a matter of necessity, since, being bent into hook form prior to its introduction, in order that the slack shall be taken up, it cannot be inserted in any other way.

Projecting into the central opening, B, on either side of the slit D, are two lugs, a a', in such manner as to occupy7 the same place with the plate of which the device is composed, and to leave a narrow rectangular opening', as shown at b b', on each side of the central opening B, to receive an edge of each end of the cesses b b', and hence underneath the lugs a a,'

as is clearly shown at Figs. 1 and 2, which thus maintain the said ends within the said opening B under all conditions and circumstances.

The space between the extremities of the projecting` lugs a a and the curved end of opening B should be'just sufliciently wider than Jthe band to permit of the easy introduction of the latter within said opening. The curvature ofthe opening B should extend from the end opposite the slit D to the ends otl the recesses bb', but from these latter points in so slight a measure, hack to points a little beyond the width of the band, as to present very nearly parallel lines, or, in other words, so as to provide two bearings, which shall be just sutliciently inclined to force the ends of the bands underneath the lugs a a the moment tension falls on the band, by the withdrawal of the bale from the compressing-machine.

The cotton-bale tie A, when provided with a central opening, B, that is formed as herein described, and shown on the drawing, a slit, D, lugs a. a', and recesses b b', for the purpose set forth.

WM. A. JORDAN.

Witnesses IiUFUs It. RHODES, H. N. JENKINS. 

